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From right to left, a CSX train line, the abandoned, algae-covered C&O canal, the canal towpath, and (through the trees) the Potomac River. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60caba74dc5b73459d639988/6ae93d66-52c1-4c0e-80c6-58e0ab3c4de9/IMG_0471.JPEG Gallery View from a C&O Canal detour - I had to walk the bike up a steep, rocky hillside... but was rewarded with a magnificent view. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60caba74dc5b73459d639988/5f6c2ce2-20a9-4973-b388-85d33dbddde5/IMG_0464.JPEG Gallery The Potomac River from the C&O Canal Towpath, leaving Cumberland, MD https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60caba74dc5b73459d639988/d4979225-bbc1-42bd-9e17-eea807875478/Casselman.PNG Gallery Stream joining the Casselman River near Markleton, PA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60caba74dc5b73459d639988/63167529-9155-4253-b63a-11249cf99c23/IMG_0445.JPEG Gallery Great Allegheny Passage along the Youghiogheny River, PA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60caba74dc5b73459d639988/7dedc11d-0cfd-4539-9f01-363d06382a0b/IMG_0429.JPEG Gallery The Monongahela River, Pennsylvania https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60caba74dc5b73459d639988/9a5bb2f8-f7ea-4323-901c-ad3280985dd5/IMG_0427.JPEG Gallery The Panhandle Trail in the western Pennsylvania highlands on a wet day https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60caba74dc5b73459d639988/57d0ebe6-ee74-4898-ac18-81506ff9e5d9/IMG_0414.JPEG Gallery Posing with a new friend during a break in Conesville, Ohio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60caba74dc5b73459d639988/ba60c45a-8efd-4acc-828f-a40404a2f8d6/IMG_0412.JPEG Gallery Leaving home after 2 rest days for the last leg of the trek https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60caba74dc5b73459d639988/0cf68970-7b4a-4412-8fbe-8e3dd0e20a2d/IMG_0396.JPEG Gallery Indiana Farmers' Humor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60caba74dc5b73459d639988/bacc7b97-ade0-4c88-a717-64e1b50015a3/sunset.jpeg Gallery Sunset at Prophetstown State Park, near Lafayette, Indiana. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60caba74dc5b73459d639988/103803ca-4041-4e21-a92b-c0b2f982ab50/road.jpeg Gallery Soybeans to the left of me; corn to the right Here I am... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60caba74dc5b73459d639988/fe01bf8a-b97b-498e-8bdd-a96ee5c92b67/mississippi.jpeg Gallery The Mississippi River near Muscatine, Iowa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60caba74dc5b73459d639988/02c7db7d-feed-4be7-87f6-852b9397fa05/Trek3.jpeg Gallery Riverside Iowa is billed as the future birthplace of Captain James T. 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